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  1. Re:Care to cite some examples? on Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors · · Score: 1

    Actually 1984 isn't considered SciFi anymore it is considered a how to guide.

  2. Re:What is SF? on Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors · · Score: 1

    Yeah it does seem that SF these days stands more for Science Fantasy than Science Fiction.

  3. Re:Niven? on Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Footfall suppose to be good, which is something I still need to read.

  4. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    The US never signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions

  5. Re:Top Gun on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    This statement is so sad and so true

  6. Re:Too realistic? on USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Some people like games like that
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV35B-vfT4U
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Combat_Simulator#A-10C_Warthog

  7. Re:six days in Falujah on ESRB To Automate Game Rating · · Score: 1

    IIRC Alcohol gets its own category

  8. Just slag it, it's the only way to be sure on The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer · · Score: 1

    After you recover the magnets of course.

  9. Re:Wonder what it'll look like? on China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket · · Score: 1

    Language usage was the most unrealistic part?

  10. Re:Cost/weight? on China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket · · Score: 1

    China hasn't been communist for the last 10 years.

    The Paramount Leader of China was headed to a conference when his driver asked do we go left or right at the turn ahead. The Paramount leader replied signal left and turn right.

  11. Re:Reverse outsourcing? No. on China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price · · Score: 1

    But but they hold a lot of our debt so they own us.

  12. Re:This is the way cross platform should be... on Portal 2 Bringing Steam To the PS3, Possible Early Release · · Score: 1

    Well if you are wanting to do that go through Amazon, it is $5 cheaper to buy and comes with a $20 gift card. If I hadn't already preordered it on Steam, I would have picked that up and I don't even own a PS3 because who knows maybe one day I will own one.

  13. Re:JRPGs - credit where it's due on Grammy Awards Finally Giving Games Some Respect · · Score: 1

    Shattered Horizon's title song is amazing; I honestly don't know if they have any other songs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJfIbfOLvpI

  14. Re:Which date? on Minecraft To Officially Launch 11/11/11 · · Score: 1

    It really only seems silly when you are writing numbers down, but it is more natural when it comes to communication. When planning and talking about events the exact times usually aren't known or exact time frames aren't needed so we talk in larger time frames, months, if more information is needed we can then set an actual date. Years are tagged onto the end because they really aren't relevant most of the time, and the words next and last will cover most conversations.

  15. Re:Or fission on Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes you're correct. I'm actually rather annoyed that I mixed those two up.

  16. Re:Or fission on Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    You know what was hotter than a Nuclear Aircraft? A attack drone, that flies at mach 3 with a scram jet "fueled" by exposing its nuclear core directly to the atmosphere, and it carries 16 1MT nukes.

    http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

  17. Re:Why Icarus? on Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a failure, it worked just fine; just make sure the probe goes away from the sun and everything will be fine.

  18. Re:Glad Jamie Hyneman is doing someting useful on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    Ya know, I think that maybe an acceptable substitute; now that I think about it, the bouncing around was far more annoying that the cast ever was.

  19. Re:Glad Jamie Hyneman is doing someting useful on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    I kinda have to agree with this post. Does anyone know if there is some guy out there that makes highlight reel of each episode, because that would be fantastic.

  20. Re:At birth on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 2

    A beowulf cluster of kidneys?

  21. Re:Not cool anymore on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    The only Christians that are actually true to the word are the Evangelicals, right?

  22. Re:is there anybody here... on Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" · · Score: 1

    I thought that the Chinese Cultural Revolution was the biggest in history?

  23. Re:One thing we could use in web browsers on Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security · · Score: 2

    Agreed the treatment of self-signed certs was just stupid. What they should have done was just taken away the "Secure Page" notification in the URL bar, because the current behavior makes a page that submits credentials in clear seem more trustworthy than pages that use self-signed certs. The behavior should have been if the browser sees a submit of a password type then and there is no encryption then complain every time.

  24. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 1

    You had a Professor that said you could cite Wikipedia? Hell, I had a teacher said Wiki is a great place to start but if you ever cite it in one of your papers you fail the course not the paper the course; wiki is an encyclopedia and you are in college.

  25. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a lie but it wasn't exactly the truth. The show opened on Jack opening his eyes and ended with him closing his eyes dying. The "not exactly the truth" comes from the fact that Jack was suppose to die in S1 or S2, and the truth comes from opening and closing was always planed for his character.